Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Shoth

[@javierpatag3609]

Utterly alien but actually not malevolent- which is a refreshing change of pace.

[@joshuazane3210]

I couldn't have put it better myself. My thoughts exactly. 👍

[@ernestlam5632]

Shoth, " I love you. I will give you anything you need or want. Except freedom. "

[@atomicash2475]

Somethings aren't good nor evil, they just are

[@thomasrush2095]

So, basically... Soylent Green is people?

[@TheLycanSubscriber]

I beg to differ... Sure, they might not want to eat your brain or steal your soul to be drafted into some fiendish army or another, but never underestimate the value of a good Long Con. And these guys *very much* strike me as playing the Long Con. A race that wishes to make all other races part of themselves is still sinister to me (though maybe I'm just biased toward biodiversity and things with discernable body parts XD)

[@Mortablunt]

A good aligned slime that would love you to join it's collective, but if you don't, that's fine, too, they're just glad to be your friend.

[@rumorcontrol7873]

Sounds like Shoth is just Juibliex taking his sweet time

[@supersmily5811]

This might be the most dangerous species in the multiverse. They'll CONVINCE you that it's okay to lose your individuality. Like some kind of hyper-intelligent Juiblex. Utterly terrifying.

[@derrickzane5834]

So...this is when SPC-999 "grows up" and goes through a religious phase.

[@teddys5775]

Shoth are good slimes Me: hey that’s a neat idea Who constantly work to convince others to join the slimes willingly Me: as long as it’s willing who cares You won’t remember much of your previous self and be turned into a worker drone Me: I mean it’s part of the process and they did it willingly They commit mass devastation destroying planets to convince the unwilling to join Me: This is just slavery with extra steps

[@forloveofthepage2361]

"We support large subsidies to the brain slug planet."

[@teddys5775]

ohhh I forgot about the brain slugs thank you for reminding me

[@derekstein6193]

All glory to the Hypnotoad.

[@DedHedZed]

Slavery by choice or genocide. Pretty nice gear pooped put for ya tho, heh? oh come on buddy. Ooze is great! you feel fine all the time, you don't have stupid bones, you're sticky. it's great!

[@stephenmemelord2303]

Sounds like a fun time to try a Sooze warlock with Shoth as a patron.

[@tatsusama3192]

Smart move moving to SubscribeStar. Patreon is not only a sinking ship, but a flaming one - A dimension of cheese, you say? [Sheogorath has entered the chat]

[@nitsanraviddaos4797]

me: watching youtube KZbin: creepy lovecraftian jelly in D&D? me: ok, you got my attention

[@nitsanraviddaos4797]

He liked my comment ahhhhhhhhh (Fangirl's enternal screaming)

[@pauldiamond1583]

Theoretically, the Shoth could bring intelligent undead back to life. Ghosts have bodies in the form of ectoplasm. They literally have a bit of mass (called soul stuff) So their spectral bodies could be dissolved in the Zolve in order to get another chance at life. If an intelligent undead (say a wight) were given the opportunity to enter the Zolve, it could be given a new body. And it would immediately become trustworthy (a total alignment shift) and adopt a new perspective to seek out others to transform but to never force a transformation on others

[@lordnul1708]

Item concept: Ooze lantern. Glows using bioluminescence and is usually intended to guide other life forms to the protein pool, but can be used for other tasks involving solid creatures if need be.

[@gunmetal611]

The whole "willing to be dissolved" concept could easily be a warlock backstory.

[@GMspiration]

Split Slingshot - This modified slingshot has a gap in the pouch that would normally hold the projectile. The Shoth hardened part of itself, leaving a trail between it and the rest of the body through the gap in the pouch. The Shoth then shoots that part of itself against a target within 30ft which then adheres to the target. The Shoth can either pull the target towards itself or travel up the trail. The Shoth can easily use this method to travel around or over gaps or dangerous terrain.

[@Zaprozhan]

Benevolent intelligent collective slime? Quite original! Thanks to you and Kobold Press for informing me.

[@Nightfire99201]

Okay a wonderful mixing of Lovecraft's Shuggoths with Dr. Seuss. I like it!

[@Vandelberger]

Love Kobold Press! Best independent book makers.

[@teddys5775]

Maybe he’s prepping for the shoth vs Juiblex war

[@epiccthulu]

I'm surprised this isn't right alongside the Tiefling, Aasimar, and Dragonborn. There should be a balanced playable race that resembles all the iconic monster typings. Now we nee a playable race based on an aberration.

[@Christopher_Pug]

Yessss! Another TMG drop! Great start to the week!

[@Luirru55]

Why would people thumbs down this video? Do they just not like learning something? Then do not watch lol

[@AJPickett]

@Mitch Lang I heart videos that I have read, so I can make sure I have seen them all Mitch, which would be plainly obvious if you didn't have your rhetoric spewing head shoved so hard up your own assumptions. Have a snickers dude.

[@kyothewraith1255]

So we have a planet sized sentient slime that wants to turn everything into slime...yeah someone call the Inquisition, we're going to need an exterminatus over here. Great video as always AJ. 🍻

[@elbentos7803]

One of the very, very rare non malevolent abberations (along with flumphs)...

[@monikakoide1302]

Nor is it to be thought...that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.

[@SeraphimKnight]

They could easily be fit into the forgotten realms if you make it so Shoth is an aspect of Ghaunadaur 🤔 The "sacrifices offering themselves willingly to the oozes" fits so well with the shoth screed it's kinda scary. Ghaunadaur also being touched by the far realm fits quite well with shoths being aberrations.

[@thecacklinggoblin1452]

Yes more. Gimme the lore. Nom. Nom

[@GMspiration]

Coral Worm Egg - A small, solidified coral worm egg. When broken the worm inside will undertake a unique defence measure by sending out a dozen streams of quickly hardening calcium that creates thick, branching, hedge-like obstacle in a 10 by 10ft area. The coral hedge impedes the movement for any small or larger creature to move through, requiring them to physically smash through. The Shoth however can move easily through the tangle and often deploy coral worm eggs to escape a fray.

[@thatonemouse5116]

Imagine this being a player character, it could make a sort of sense. The player is always trying to convince the other players to join in its oozyness while it helps them in their deeds.

[@destonlee2838]

Join in the ooziness while helping do deeds.. So, Basically clerics.

[@grymhild]

Have you heard the sloshy news of That Which Lurks, The Elder Eye Ghaunadaur?

[@AJPickett]

GLBGLBGLBGLBGLB!!

[@firelord699]

You know what'd be really cool? If there was another sub-species of Shoth that essentially can act like a Symbiote like Venom, and bond with another willing creature.

[@youroldman8129]

Like a pet. Or perhaps a specifically engineered creature or technology with a simple AI to get another creature more comfortable with an ooze body and craving is benefits. If it can help them change appearance like venom, then it could also be used to give them an "out" if the idea of looking like goo is a hangup for them.

[@TheBigElement]

Love the videos

[@gwyndolin1536]

Join the slime collective, resistance is goopy.

[@jameswilliams2075]

I could see them being galactic environmentalists that help save spiecies from extinction but they ask sentient ones to merge

[@jordanrelkey]

I imagine large Shoth structures, such as "ships" and "colonies", utilizing vast networks of tiny circulatory system tubules as fast travel transport to move from place to place. With clever use of pressure differentials and precision control of their fluid surface tension they can move at tremendous speeds through these "pipes" with very little energy.

[@AJPickett]

Excellent.

[@cameronpearce5943]

I wanna see an Elder Brain and a Droth fighting in the same pool. Maybe ships crash in too eachother or some teleportation goes awry, but imagine if they merged...

[@spacepiratejacen2258]

A great way to start the day, love it! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@nullvoid4063]

I now look forward to seeing the opening gimmick in the beginning.

[@MrKlotzi123]

So, benevolent friendly Space Slimes? Count me in!

[@spunkyspaz]

Where my slime girls at?

[@HumbleMemeFarmer]

Buncha amorphous hippies is what they are.

[@EdMcStinko]

Its like these guys came from the Warhammer dimension or something. Except these guys are really nice.

[@thehillz726]

its the final form of the tau empire

[@Thoralmir]

The way you described their methods of gaining new converts reminds me of Glootie from Rick & Morty.

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

yeah but Glootie commits genocide and steals their water, the slimes welcome you in with open arms and make you super intelligent immortal beings.

[@tonilafountain636]

I can just hear my player cleric saying as one of these, "The power of Shoth compelles you!" XD

[@thedescendedangel]

IT'S LIKE YOU SENSED MY NEED FOR AN INTERESTING RACE!

[@maclennanld]

A slime torch could be a slimy orb containing naturally seperated bladders of diphenyl oxalate and hydrogen peroxide that they pop allowing the chemicals to mix when used.

[@kyledorey9459]

So glow sticks

[@maclennanld]

@@kyledorey9459 Yes, a biological glowstick. Well as biological as magic slime creatures get

[@forloveofthepage2361]

The Black Truffle: This unassuming truffle looks and smells justs as any other black truffle would, with one major exception, once this one is eaten, it turns the eater into an ooze after a short time. Once injested, the eater must make a DC 18 con save or become poisoned until they take a long rest. Each day when the eater of the Black Truffle takes a long rest they can repeat the save. The save is made until the creature succeeds or fails 3 times, wichever comes first. Successes mean the creature returns to normal and is no longer poisoned. Failure means the creature transforms into a Black Pudding and act accordingly. Zom Case: Specially designed to protect the Zom from harm, this item protects the Shoth from critical hits and gives the Sloth +1 AC due to their greatest weakness being well protected. Very basic, but desired by all Shoth.

[@jonathancoster6576]

Could make a great patron for a warlock

[@benthomason3307]

"a dimension of cheese" is a phrase I'd never thought I'd hear come from the mouth of AJ Pickett

[@AJPickett]

Really?!

[@animorph17]

The promised land of the ratfolk.

[@goolabbolshevish1t651]

Sheogorath from the elder scrolls must have transcended dimensions.

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

It could also be a dimension of Chocolate and Candies and Baked Goods. Then it would be very hard to say no for quite some people.

[@xytek]

I'ved owned the Creature Codex over a year now, and did not know this monster was in there. Great Video on Kobold Press's Creature Codex. I can't wait to see more from them on your channel.

[@sillerbarly4927]

Hear me out, Shoth Patrons as a Patron option for Warlock. You gain some of the abilities, for instance instead of being fully amorphous you could at will become 1 size smaller than your normal size. And at 20th you would become a full Shoth. Also would probably be more mechanically like the Hexblade Warlock, a mix of Melee an magic, with you slowly gaining more of the natural features of the Shoth. Effectively making a warlock symbiote subclass.

[@juliogouvea9447]

Plane shift me now to the Dimension of Cheese!

[@Raghetiel]

Shoth "cult of the lamb"-styled campaign!

[@GMspiration]

My Spelljammer setting has three ancient races, long since destroyed. The earliest of these is the Shamash Collective, an ooze-based collective that fought alongside the Wind Dukes of Aaqa and celestial against the demon hordes (sort of like Roman Auxilia made up of foreign, less skilled fighters). In the current day there is only a single word of the Shamash Collective remaining, having been driven to extinction by the mindflayers, who find eating them like eating a delicious sentient pudding.

[@GMspiration]

The most common magic item they use is the tentacle rod, which they can easily use to manipulate items and move between spaces with an air gap. They are also the creator race of gelatinous cubes, using them to create large structures by having them move into position and then hardening. Modern gelatinous cubes are their left over construction materials.

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

I'd love a playable ooze race, seems like fun.

[@findantu]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dralasites Might help a little.

[@PandorasFolly]

@@findantu came here to post that exact suggestion. The dralasites also got picked up for 3.5 and later D&D scifi world books so there are published rules for them in newer systems.

[@samuelreese1816]

We had finally found venom in d&d

[@victorvaldez8869]

I'm getting some Odo & the Changelings from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 vibes too.

[@zacharyweaver276]

Shoth item: insulating cloak. A sort of plastic like covering shoth envelop themselves in to protect themselves from the elements useful for traveling to desert or ice worlds as they explore the multiverse to keep their bodies from evaporating in the heat or freezing respectively

[@AJPickett]

Great!

[@zacharyweaver276]

@@AJPickett Thanks for the heart

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

The Shoth Puff Packet: A gooey, hollow sphere that pulls gaseous waste from metabolic processes and pressurizes it. A small "air locked" opening can have objects stuck to it which are then propelled with infeasible force when the opening is depressurized. Mostly used by the Suze (spell check needed) to rivet metals, it can also be used as a weapon or propulsion device

[@gaufridusofthefire6555]

man now i wanna play a shoth.

[@Hurdleizer]

Your lore videos somehow always seem to brighten my day. Thank you and keep on trucking! ^_^

[@purplehaze2358]

Take a shot every time you hear anything that ends with “Oth” in this video.

[@Morg]

this is why we have rules

[@ryedj707]

Good thing Oths aren't related to the Yugoloths, otherwise I'd die before the last SHOTH.

[@PandorasFolly]

Listen thief izntn such a funk wkskwowosmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmk

[@KS-PNW]

I've been playing since the late ,90s but this was the first time I've heard of these guys, thanks AJ!

[@trajanfidelis]

I love these guys! Along with the shard minds, and the flumphs. Friendly/neutral aberrations are highly under utilized

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

Here wuz Seamus

[@DCdabest]

Ah yes. The Cheese Dimension. A plane in which all broken character builds have been banished to in order to contain the sheer overwhelming jankiness that would spread through the Multiverse if they were allowed to remain in circulation. Everytime one escapes Mordenkainen himself gets involved. After all; each one is a terrible threat to The Balance.

[@dogdogdraws2352]

Warlock+sorcerer go brrrrrrrrrrr Also paladin+rouge go brrrr

[@DCdabest]

@@dogdogdraws2352 warlock-paladin too haha

[@dogdogdraws2352]

@@DCdabest so true, personally i love playing high level utility (bard/warlock/sorcerer)

[@ArchFiendAF]

ah yes the lawful good kind of evil my favorite

[@oriondye3212]

I wonder how the Shoth view slime and oozes and juiblex.

[@KazeTheCursedOne]

Honestly it would be great to bring back the non-neutonian property for Shoth shields; it's a liquid under little to no pressure such as when it's carried that instantly becomes a strong solid when hit with an attack.

[@AJPickett]

Good thinking!

[@CheerfuEntropy]

So it actually makes more sense that collective entity/species would actually be pretty selective about who they let join, and the parameters wouldn't be knowlege or power....it'd be how well you get along, and want to be there. Consider how awful it'd be sharing a brain with a selfish person, or a judgemental person. Even if those traits don't bother you in friends...remember, you can all read each others minds. Antisocial traits would go over Pooooorly

[@ded2thaworld963]

Oozes and slimes were always one of my favorite monster types so these are cool af to me. I freaking loved that last artwork of the slime with the skeleton and wizard hat

[@AJPickett]

I know, I could not leave that out... so cute!

[@richardofarms]

That intro just keeps getting fancier

[@xela12345]

I wish there was a DnD group similar to Critical Role that allowed people to vote for what characters they play for campaigns, its really unfortunate that all this cool lore exists but nobody uses it since humans and elves are so much more popular and homogenized...

[@alphaamino]

Shoth item: Sooze-phone The Shoth, noting how reticent some otherwise willing participants were to lose their individual memories, created the Sooze-phone - a hinged silver sphere worn over the head during the dissolving process and would gently snap shut around the brain, etching its thought patterns onto the interior of the orb. This would allow a sooze, by pressing against the inside, to "remember" the thoughts and memories of the individual who came before it. That is, any of the Thoth could access these memories by jello-molding the brain into shape. For more collectivized Thoth who have no need of the individual, these are treated as books.

[@AJPickett]

That is a cool concept!

[@pessimisticbunny7289]

Imagine showing up to a party and having to introduce your shoth best friend

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

hey ladies, this is Bergalergl, he's got 4 tentacles and a soothing aura 😏

[@spunkyspaz]

Slime girl.

[@omega311888]

reminds me of the Changlings and their Great Link on DS9 thanks for the info!

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

Except Changelings are xenophobes. The Silver Bloods in Voyager may be a different story.

[@DS-zv8hr]

Slime personal floatation device: two sacs that release a liquid compound that react to release a gas that fills a membrane like a life jacket. Make the gas lighter than air and place chitin scales on it with perhaps stabilizing buoyant arms hanging off like wings and you have a Shoth Cuirass of flight.

[@ryedj707]

I love kobold press monsters! Looking forward to seeing more creature codex and tome of beasts (and soon to be TOB2) creatures if this becomes a norm on the channel. Personally want to see a video on the Skein Witch from TOB.

[@Vandelberger]

Or on the Ghoul Emperor. Teaching Drow what’s up.

[@AJPickett]

I'll be bringing Kobold Press monsters on a regular basis.

[@ryedj707]

Christopher Vandenberg-Garcia the ghoul emperor is definitely a cool one, especially given its vast amounts of lore in the kobold press works. Some of my own personal favorites from TOB are the cambium and blood hag for their cool multi-option abilities which make them fresh, lore accurate, and diverse and I also love the paper drake above many others for it’s cool lore (love the part about being able to give it spells with runes, really makes it a wonderful pet/familiar for high level wizards). Honestly the skein witch is a fan made monster so I’m not sure if there’s much lore to be found from it outside the book, so I’d love to even have any lore on any of these three monsters. There are hella others I love for their lore and fresh mechanics especially these which I’d be elated to see lore videos on any of which: the eonic drifter, fear smith, eye golem, grim jester, red hag, heralds (blood and darkness), kot bayun, liosalfar, mask wight (this things ability is mind boggling), and the suturefly.

[@jaredbledsoe-sams1361]

Hmmm...how is juiblex not banging on their door like Karen after a manager? Also, safe to to assume they know of mind Flayers. But did they know about Aboleth?

[@jaredbledsoe-sams1361]

@@Fgway if juiblex were a natural part of the Material plane then yes. But juiblex is a demon lord that came to existence with the abyss. There is no real cosmic balance with something outside of it. What naturally occurring evil Ooze does Shoth balance?

[@jaredbledsoe-sams1361]

@@Fgway hell is not the Abyss. Demons are not Devils. Shoth is a prime material being and Juiblex is a demon lord. He was born from tharizdun planting the shard. Nothing Natural about it. I get your idea. But it's wrong because it needs the abyss/juiblex to be a Natural being. The only "natural" demons are the Yuguloths. Juiblex is not a Yuguloth.

[@jaredbledsoe-sams1361]

@@Fgway so it works because you're juxtaposing the completely unnatural Abyss with natural thing. The shard and the Abyss are not Natural. There is no good cosmic reflection of the Abyss and (non yugoloth) demons because they shouldn't exist in the first place. The Abyss is a cancer eating the multiiverse. Nothing natural about it.

[@jaredbledsoe-sams1361]

@@Fgway noooooo. Read up on the Blood war and Abyssal lore. That's entirely wrong. Devils fighting demons in the blood war is only reason they haven't won. And the cancer thing is more literal than metaphorically.

[@jaredbledsoe-sams1361]

@@Fgway if you mean the original Obrynth invasion, it was infighting. Demogorgon killing the queen of chaos then the other demon Lords started fighting for control. With the dawn wars going on, the Abyss was more or less forgotten for a time

[@IvyScrawls]

My favorite creature from the Creature Codex is a tie between the Light and Wasteland Dragons, it'd be great to see a video on them! The demons and devils are amazing as well.

[@KarTheDeamon]

What if dying god, hid itslef into a mortal body, and would merge with shoth?

[@AJPickett]

Unknown.. sounds like a good plot.

[@EdMcStinko]

Thats a really neat idea for a campaign or something

[@KarTheDeamon]

I know. I used a dying god trope in one of my Worlds. And it was So great that after the said world got destroyed (not the planet, but the only continent with Every living thing) i devided to let some People survive and travel throu space on a massive ship to my new world, where they populated one of the continents (which i used as a starting, learning location for my new players) And than cataclysm happened and the civilization dyed. And since the Carevna (empress was partialy devine, and Last avatar of trickster traitor Hero god was there and dyed as well, the combined devine energy started an age of Bohatýrů (heroes) For the 2 main continents.

[@KarTheDeamon]

But to the point. I think i might use this in my current world. So the God will unknowingly merge (He is hidden inside Human) And when He tries to get free. Both will get corrupted. And thus i will end up with a god that will be technically undead. And part of this creature that will become an anathema to its original. Destroying living things and knowledge. I do have zombies and such.... Necromancers in my world. But no undead is sort of spontaneosly created. All of them have a reason like curse, or unfinished bussiness, or serving necromancer as a way to repent for their sins. (in my world, necromancy is a dark art, but technically is not bad. You need to strike an agreement with the deceased, and you can animate only neutral or bad People.) There are Black Priests, from slavic folklore, Who cannot animate the dead, but use a lot of powers, which are considered necromantic. Like they can find Last things the deceased person saw. If they have a drop of blood they can use the same ability on living, but they will see only the Last moments that led to the blood being spilled. They can even track the original owner of things, if they had the thing long enough.

[@thehillz726]

if the god willingly merges then i imagine youd get a second shoth like being that acts as an avatar or merges with the first. or we get a situation like elder brain vs a brain staler dragon

[@BusterBuizel]

SCP-999? Is that you?

[@jacobfreeman5444]

What I am curious about is what could force a seemingly well meaning society into doing such violence just to get the cooperation of their targets. The general feel of the Shoth is there are what they seem. A well intentioned people who want to save everyone they meet. I wouldn't really consider them slimes though. Slimes are generally simple creatures that have little to no mind of their own. The Shoth seem to more be beings that have learned how to create amorphous shells for their consciousness. A slime is still, to a degree, a natural living entity. The Shoth bodies are more of a technology and they just thought not being confined to set parameters was nifty.

[@facedeer]

My guess would be this only happens in extreme "greater good" scenarios. For example if they discover a civilization that's going to do terrible things to the world at large if they're left to their own devices, they might force them into the Shoth so that they can be "guided" by more altruistic aims. Or if there's some great threat out there and a particular civilization is the only one with the means to combat it, they might force them into the Shoth so that the Shoth can make use of that ability to save everyone else. Presumably after making a sales pitch for a voluntary collaboration first, of course.

[@digunder14]

i can see them having some sort of psionic generator like device of that ooze metal that could allow them to shift the density of their body, allowing their whole bodies to be basically able to be a weapon or shield as needed

[@AJPickett]

Oh, very good, so the vessel enhances all of them.

[@dkchaos1133]

AJ... there's something outside you're window.

[@peggle09]

Would be neat to see this as a playable race.

[@AJPickett]

Could work as a template.

[@pauldiamond1583]

Just use the Sooze statblock. And the DM can drop-in an Oth and a Droth into the setting; somewhere nearby

[@littlekittyphantommadness9049]

Someone needs to make these cute gooey goose into a playable character if they haven't already. I'm trying to right now and I have so many Back stories rolling around in my head.

[@littlekittyphantommadness9049]

Here's one I decided on. An oth sent ta meet a mind flayer that said they wanted ta join but captured her and broke her connection ta their shared consciousness she escapes and joins a group of adventurers ta help find a way back ta the collective. Now I just need ta come up with stats ta make her usable.

[@jameswilliams2075]

Ozze dart they hold many small spear heads in ther body none over 1 inch but are able to fire them rapidly or add chemicals to them for many affects such as poison sedatives Exeter

[@zachmartin5876]

Im just wanting to see a Shoth-Juiblex showdown

[@pauldiamond1583]

Fuuuuuuu... Dood. That sounds amazing. Wait... What happens if someone is polymorphed into a form of Shoth? Do they immediately gain access to a library of knowledge?

[@destonlee2838]

We all loose this war.

[@Lunarl4ndr]

Those aren't tentacles... they're genticles!

[@Baraborn]

Wow, this RIGHT HERE. Add it to Warhammer 40k. People have been speculation about a new WH40k species or like a decade. These would be a perfect low cost, low painting skill, rules oriented intro army to people into the hobby. Dungeons and Dragons is truly the best game ever created.

[@AJPickett]

Soth army, oh man, imagine the command units and the war machines! Step aside Nids.

[@ethanblair981]

Lovecraftian names and themes, yes please

[@alanschaub147]

AJ: Your creativity knows no bounds, nor does your madness! 😉

[@bobkaminski3782]

This can make for a random encounter in campaign set in the fringes of civilization. Maybe the DM wants to do a little SpellJammer. The party helps them repair a ship. In exchange they hand over a star chart.

[@AJPickett]

The star chart is sticky...

[@TheLateleks]

Something like a bombardier beetle so they get something like dragon's breath spell. Can activate two reacting globules and "breath" a cone of elemental damage at target. Must hold equal numbers of each reacting globule.

[@SethphirothRules1]

I wonder what would happen if Juiblex and its slimes ended up encountering the Shoth.

[@flibbernodgets7018]

I think he would try to subvert the Shoth collective and turn them all into his servants. Sounds like an interesting story: an expanding hivemind collective of good-humored slime folks need help fighting off the advance of the freaky ooze cultists.

[@AJPickett]

Oh, it would be all out war. We have no idea how powerful Shoth is by comparison... I imagine it is QUITE powerful.

[@richardnorton3453]

Fascinating. Strange and wonderful to have an intelligent, ooze-like race that might be benevolent to other creatures. Mechanically, would a Soth arcanist/paladin who is transitioning into a Droth retain its arcanist/paladin abilities?

[@animorph17]

I once got to play a monster-party campaign as a gelatinous slime with paladin class levels who's quirk was that it loved and adored everything to do with humans. Everything about the Shoth just reminds me of how scary an intelligent slime can be.

[@AJPickett]

You would think so, right?

[@TheBigGuppy]

I expected it to be something related to Lovecraftian Yog Sotgoth or Soggoth. It must be the ‘oth’. 😀. Let’s see if I guessed right.

[@grizzlymelon8376]

So they are basically lawfull good mostly? Wouldn`t have expected that.... at all.

[@boianko]

Well it seems like it, but can you ever truly trust them to not lie to you about what goes on in the hivemind? Who's to say they aren't just amazing liars that have realized it is easier to assimilate whole races through coercion than through war.

[@NoConsequenc3]

I'd personally say Lawful Neutral with the opinion that being nice is the best way to get what they want. Being good isn't the point of their lawfulness

[@purplehaze2358]

Misread the title as sloth and was really confused by the thumbnail.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

In d&d 5e, sloths have a cr 50. A Single normal sloth cast denigrate ray as a 1007th level spell as a bonus action an infinite number of times, which in the lore is said powerful to destroy an infinite number of universes, including all dimensions they contain. They are immune all types of damage but force and as a legendary action they can teleport to a universe you will never be able to reach.

[@1gient]

This sounds like a creature that would be fun to play as. Right alongside that one psychic ooz.

[@TalkativeHands]

I love this and I need more aliens

[@goodanytimej8688]

So in another universe Flubber built space ship and flew around the universe helping people, cool😁.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Seems like a non hostile type of Borg. Minus the hardware.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

They are _soft_ ware UwU 👁w👁 Uw